Long time, no see Marky! Judging by your smiley, you don't seem to be disturbed yourself.

I have mixed feelings here. Young children alleging abuse should always be taken seriously as it's something that they ought not to know about and couldn't make it up.

I think that with teenagers and adults, more care has to be taken as unfortunately there are some people capable of making up stories for whatever reason, be it attention seeking or wanting revenge on someone they dislike.

They do untold harm to genuine victims who as a result may not be believed.

Not Born Yesterday

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it's just a signature. some people find it irritating or try to read something into my using it, which of course is why i do. for insuffient evidence you may as well say no evidence because at the end of the day that what it amounts to. cases of this nature should always be undertaken behind closed doors. period.

Not Born Yesterday wrote:Sometimes things don't come out after a person's death because there was nothing there anyway.

I'm thinking of Lord McAlpine about whom terrible things were said on the Internet while he was alive, including that he had killed children, not only abused them.

I was expecting the floodgates to open when he died with all his victims or their relatives now able to speak out without being sued.

It didn't happen, did it?

tom watson started that witch hunt without naming mcalpine but leaving everyone in no doubt as to he was referring to, under cover of parliamentary privalege of course. turned out nobody bothered to show the accuser a photo of mcalpine until he'd been trashed all to hell. the accuser said it wasn't him. tom Watson and his posse ran to the hills. talking of tom watson, now his little project has been dismissed as fabricated nonsense, he seems to have lost interest wonder why.